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‘Eleanor the Great’ Review: Scarlett Johansson’s Directorial Debut Is an Unconvincing Crowd-Pleaser, With June Squibb Doing Brash Shtick
In Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, June Squibb has her showiest role yet in a mouthy comedy that's also a sentimental Holocaust weeper.
After years as a sneaky scene stealer, Squibb became a star in “Nebraska,” the 2013 Alexander Payne film that turned her combination of homespun grandmotherly demeanor and ruthless wit into a crowd-pleasing force. When we first meet Squibb’s Eleanor Morgenstein, who is 94 and still spry, she’s waking up in the bedroom she shares with her oldest friend, Bessie (Rita Zohar), in an apartment in Florida. When she and Bessie arrive at the market’s pickle-jar section, only to learn that the kosher brand they favor isn’t there, Eleanor seizes the chance to dress down a stockboy who’s utterly at sea about how to help them.
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